How to Become a More Positive Influence in Your Son or Daughter’s Life During Your Whole Lifetime

Pre-school children emulate what their parent(s) say, do, and reinforce. This nurturing in the first five years of life deeply impacts the internal structure of the child’s brain – cognitively and emotionally – a critical foundation which impacts the rest of life.

As the child enters and goes through the K-12 system, the parent(s) role is to help him or her adjust to this new, expansive, and ever-changing learning environment, a wider breadth of community contacts, and deal with the youth’s growing physical and emotional body -- including the desire for more independence.

The parent(s) observe their compliant. loving children turn into an adolescent, then teenager, and high school graduate, ready for job hunting or further education. Parent(s) face many personal adjustments in these shifting time-zones of life. Although the son or daughter may or may not live in the same home after high school graduation, there are vital connections (degrees of bonding) that can and should continue in the following decades.

Draayer presents, “Powerful Potential of Parent(s): A Child’s First, Best, and Only Lifelong Teacher,” as a Handbook 2nd Edition to encourage and help parent(s) continue meaningful family ties in all phases of life’s transitions.

As a teacher, principal, superintendent, adjunct professor, national educational leader, and consultant across the country, Dr. Draayer fully understands that a school system is powerful, but at best, can only be secondary to the parent(s) when it comes to influencing the whole of a child’s life.

This handbook will present an opportunity for every parent (and parent-to-be) to engage and better contribute to their child’s development through all stages of life. It is also streamlined by Draayer’s word choice. Written in simple prose, readers will find it conducive to discussion, comprehension, and learning.

Every parent should take charge and use their potential to effectively influence their children, one generation to the next. We owe it to them, ourselves, our neighbors, and all of humankind.

Embrace the potential. Grab your copy now!

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Powerful Potential of Parent(s): A Child’s First, Best and Only Lifelong Teacher
Author: Donald R. Draayer. Ed. D.
Publisher: Your Online Publicist
Published Date: May 2021
Book Genre: Self-help, Guide


About the Author:

The long career of Dr. Donald Draayer in public education includes teaching at the elementary, middle, and high school levels. He also served as principal at all three levels and served as school superintendent for a twenty-four-year period. He taught graduate classes at the University of Illinois and University of Minnesota. Most recently, he has been an educational consultant in his own company, Experience PLUS, Inc. He has spoken to hundreds of audiences on behalf of the Search Institute of Minneapolis regarding developmental assets of children. His work and speaking have taken him throughout the United States, Japan, and China.

In 1990, Dr. Draayer was named National Superintendent of the Year and in 1998 was given the Distinguished Service Award by the American Association of School Administrators. The North Central Association presented him with the John Vaughan Excellence in Education Award in 1993; and in his home community, he was named Person of the Year, Senior Fellow at the University of Minnesota, and Minnesota Superintendent of the Year.

Dr. Draayer’s wife, Mary Anne, is a retired educator. They have two grown children, three grandchildren, twins are on the way, and live in Minnetonka, Minnesota, a western suburb of Minneapolis, where they continue to be active in school, community, and church life. The inspiration for this book came from the hundreds of educators across America who enriched his professional and personal life and have shared their retirement journeys with him.

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